Church Nixes Good Friday Fenway Hot Dogs

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2004-03-12 02:45pm

BOSTON - Opening Day ticket holders at Boston's Fenway Park this year who are Catholic face a dilemma: the Boston Archdiocese said since the afternoon game against the Toronto Blue Jays (news) falls on Good Friday, they must refrain from eating meat, including hot dogs, sausages and pepperoni pizza.

"We're already getting all kinds of requests for dispensation to eat meat," said the Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, a spokesman for the archdiocese. However Coyne said that after a meeting to discuss the requests, Boston church leaders decided a baseball game was too weak an excuse to duck the no-meat rule.

"I would hope it was just an oversight when they were doing the schedule," Coyne told the Boston Herald. "I think it's very insensitive to the huge number of people who are Christians and fans."

In 1995 and 2000, Cardinal Bernard F. Law, then the head of the archdiocese, allowed local Catholics to eat meat when St. Patrick's Day fell on a Friday during Lent.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-03-12 03:14pm

I like the part where Rev. Coyne says that the scheduling was insensitive to Christians. As if the MLB actually checks this sort of thing before scheduling a game.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-03-12 03:46pm

Whats all the fuss about,everyone knows there is no meat in Hot Dogs

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2004-03-12 05:56pm

Bahahahahaha! Sucks to be Catholic.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-03-12 05:57pm

Montcalm wrote:Whats all the fuss about,everyone knows there is no meat in Hot Dogs

You're forgetting the hog anus.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-03-12 05:58pm

neoolong wrote:
Montcalm wrote:Whats all the fuss about,everyone knows there is no meat in Hot Dogs
You're forgetting the hog anus.

Pardon me while i`ll go barf everything i ate

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-03-12 06:02pm

Thank you, Martin Luther.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-03-12 06:38pm

Good. If I really shouldn't eat meat on Fridays, such an edict should not be suspended for something so pedestrian as a baseball game.

People should either follow the rules or say no. They shouldn't pretend to be good and then back out at the drop of a hat.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2004-03-12 06:49pm

Howedar wrote:Good. If I really shouldn't eat meat on Fridays, such an edict should not be suspended for something so pedestrian as a baseball game.

People should either follow the rules or say no. They shouldn't pretend to be good and then back out at the drop of a hat.

I thought the last sentence was the most humorous. Law was such a corrupt ass.

Not that the new guy's any better.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-03-12 06:50pm

Not trying to defend either of them.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2004-03-12 07:01pm

Howedar wrote:Not trying to defend either of them.

Hmmm, I don't believe I implied you did...

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-03-12 07:16pm

I know. Just clarifying.

Tom_Aurum · Post by **Tom_Aurum** » 2004-03-12 07:24pm

Well, you could always have the vendors offer fish sticks...

(ducks for cover)

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-03-12 07:26pm

fish sticks would likely have more nutritional value than hot dogs at the very least. of course this is under the assumption that hot dogs are really meat. . . .

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-03-12 07:27pm

Wow, this whole dilemma scores a 9.9 on my "I don't give a shit" meter.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-03-12 07:53pm

Holy cow, what does it take to score a ten?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-03-12 07:55pm

Howedar wrote:Holy cow, what does it take to score a ten?

That last tenth is for the fact that the dilemma is mildly amusing.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2004-03-12 09:28pm

Haven't those poor Boston fans suffered enough?

The Albino Raven · Post by **The Albino Raven** » 2004-03-13 03:07am

I love it how the Catholics are so devout that the sacrifices they believe their savior made for them and the symbolic sacrifice of meat as recognition thereof is not as important as their love for the Red Sox. It's no wonder they never make it to the World Series.

TheDarkling · Post by **TheDarkling** » 2004-03-13 10:03am

Either you ignore it as a silly ritual or you think it means something and thus follow the custom. To think it really means something but not as much as having extra enjoyment at a rounders, sorry I mean baseball, game reflects badly on them indeed.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-03-13 10:51am

neoolong wrote:
Montcalm wrote:Whats all the fuss about,everyone knows there is no meat in Hot Dogs
You're forgetting the hog anus.

Hmmm, that makes me think about corn dogs. Corn batter around something that contains a hog's cornhole. Mmmmm, they just get more apetizing the longer this thread goes.

Anyway, I'm sure those people stupid enough to be both devout Christians and devout Red Sox fans can find some other way to enjoy the game. Skip the meat, drink more beer and eat some nachos.

I did find the "insensitive to Christians" comment pretty funny. Nice and presumptuous of him to assume that anyone gave a shit and that all Christians are Catholic.

Time to break out the tofu dogs.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2004-03-13 02:09pm

Fremen_Muhadib wrote:I love it how the Catholics are so devout that the sacrifices they believe their savior made for them and the symbolic sacrifice of meat as recognition thereof is not as important as their love for the Red Sox. It's no wonder they never make it to the World Series.

Most American Catholics I've met seem to think that all those rules are merely suggestions.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-03-13 03:42pm

HemlockGrey wrote:Thank you, Martin Luther.

Um, seeing as he started the whole damn Reformation thing, I don't think I would blame him at all for what is in reality a Catholic tradition.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-03-13 03:58pm

Um, seeing as he started the whole damn Reformation thing, I don't think I would blame him at all for what is in reality a Catholic tradition.

As you pointed out, he started the Reformation, which led to the current situation today, in which I can be a non-Catholic Christian and, thus, eat meat at ballgames.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-03-13 04:09pm

I apologise for my erronious interpretation.